Accessory Kits

 

 

 

 

Here are the knitting-crochet accessory kit and the tatting kit! They are finally on facebook, e-bay and here. Judy and I are really pleased with the way they have turned out. We hope everyone will visit us on facebook and also our store in e-bay. We are looking for feedback (good and not-so-good) from all of you.

New Year's Day

I have been working on my New Year resolutions. It seems they never change: Lose 20 pounds, read my bible and exercise. However, I am now calling them goals so I guess that is a change!

The tatting class is rapidly filling up which is very exciting. Especially since I know little more than they do. I haven't checked on the knitting class yet. I am meeting with a previous tatting instructor this next week. Hopefully, she'll be able to help me with the turnings.

I just finished Margaret Coel's "The Girl with Braided Hair". It is another one of the Vicky and Father John mysteries and I really enjoyed it. There are always enough historical facts in her novels that it keeps me interested.

I also read Barbara Freethy's "Golden Lies". It was totally different, but again I really enjoyed it.

The delicate art of tatting

This will be the first tatting project for the class. We will be starting after the first of the year and I hope there is enough interest to proceed. I want to try a tatted necklace with beads next, they are similar to the necklaces that are so popular right now so want to see how they turn out. I also want to make a tatted snowflake for following class project.

The knitting projects are doing quite nicely, I will have some lambs for my next posting. The Central Point Parks and Recreation knitting group is meeting here tonight. We can't meet Friday because several have conflicts. We are calling ourselves the "Twisted Stitchers" from a comment one of them made as I was explaining about twisting the stitches.

Obviously, I haven't been reading very much. Right now I am reading the Hippotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters but have barely started it.

Tatting or What goes around comes around

Several years ago my sister and I decided we would learn to tat. Tatting is an ancient needlework that has lost popularity in the past few years. Presently there are very few accomplished tatters and my sister and I wanted to learn this craft before it became a lost art. We both set out to collect several tatting shuttles, books on tatting and thread. Tatting thread comes in sizes that range from size 10 (the thickness of small string) to size 50 (the thickness of thin thread). After several months of comparing our minuscule projects, we both gradually lost interest.

Recently, however, two of my knitting students expressed an interest in tatting. I am going to teach them and hopefully will finish some of the projects I started. Tatting still holds a fascination for me as an art that is a little more difficult than knitting or crocheting. I will post any finishedprojects.